THE WESTERN FRONT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1338, 28 May 1918, Page 5

THE WESTERN FRONT.

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. FRENCH REPULSE A RAID. (A. & X.Z. & Router) LONDON, May 20. A French 0011111111111(1110 states: — There is fairly groat reciprocal artillery activity at Hungard Wood and south of the Avrt*. Enemy raids on posts on the Dividers sector and in the Champagne and the Vosges failed. The evening French communique states:—We repulsed a raid northward of Bailleul. The enemy heavily gas-shelled Villers-Bretonneux and westward of Hinges. BIG BOMBARDMENTS. (Renter) LONDON. May *',. Heuter's correspondent at British Headquarters telegraphing under today's dale, says:—Since last evening the enemy's artillery lire has markedly increased at various places. Villers-Bretonneux, the Scarpe Vallev. Auchonvilicrs, Englebelmer, Mailly-Mailet, and Martinsart have been bombarded with gas and high explosive shells. There has also been a prolonged outburst of intense gunfire "from Festuberl to the Yser. Dining the afternoon the uproar lulled. There is no reason to assume that the bombardments herald an imminent resumption of Ihe offensive.